electric shock thing could be restless leg syndrome
Our house is quite old (pre UK land registry) and both me and my partner have sensed numerous spirits hanging around it. My partner and myself, are Pagan, and have the attitude, all spirits are free to come and go, so long as they mean no harm. We're just the latest in a fair line of residents
I've sensed a horse, and friend has heard it, in our OLD slightly unusually proportioned garage. That fits with the 1901 census which states one of the occupants of our house was milk man, and in 1901 he'd have had a horse and cart. Couple of people have reported sensing/seeing a couple of "Victorian" children peaking through the banisters, into our living room.
Most common encounter has been a couple who myself and my partner, call Mr and Mrs Albert. Only my partner has seen Mrs Albert with her eyes, and that was when she was hanging some washing out on a line. While the washing post is still there, there wasn't a line to it. She seemed to a woman in 50's/60s clothing, and of about 40 years.
While I haven't seen her, I can usually tell when she's around. Often on Wednesday evenings, and she's in the hall for a few minutes, with an lingering smell of a perfume, It's as if she's going out for the evening to something like women's group (don't think it's bingo, or going to a film). My partner saids she's had a suspicion she's of to some kind of spiritualist meeting.
Albert is the entity who we first noticed in this house, and the one who I've had most experiences of. He seems to like an old fashioned (1950s?) tobacco, and when it can be smelt it's a certain sign he's around. He's VERY interactive for a ghost. I 1st noticed him watching when cooking some food in the microwave, he was clearly interested in what I doing. Next I he was around when I was doing some DIY with power-tools. My partner likes the film Gone with the Wind, and BOTH of us sensed Albert watching it with us and at one point BOTH of us heard Albert say "Wow! movies on a record!". Talking of TV, If there's a program about ghosts on the telly he'll often sit in an unoccupied chair and watch it, offering the occasional comment. He don't like supernatural fiction though!
I've only seen Albert looking FULLY solid once. Maybe that was something like a "video recording" ghost. Was about 2pm, in full sunlight, and there was this short man, quite plump, with a slightly flushed face, walking up the back yard. Apart from his CLEAN boiler suit, he looked a fair bit like Fred Dibnah.
Wonder if Albert might have been a foreman, or maybe some kind of engineer in the former woollen mill just behind us. Would go some way to explain his interest in "new things", and technology.
There was a problem a while back with part of the garage floor subsiding, so I had a look what was causing the problem. Turned out there was an old manhole that had been filled in with all kinds of junk, and over time it had rusted/decayed. An old solid body pram, parts of pedal bikes, old white wall tyres, odd oil/pant cans cans, was even a something I think is a small electric fan cooled heat exchanger (perhaps something to with the milkman?). Most interesting was the motorbike parts- part of an old black and white bike number plate, (the kind that sits on the front mud guard and is curved), and a front head light. After I found the motor-bike part there was a change in the house's atmosphere, and it was as Albert was no longer as tied to the house as he had been. Wonder if it was the remains of Albert's bike that I found, and if he's now enjoying some of his ghostly existence out on his bike. He still pops back in from time to time. Having asked him, I'm SURE he knows he's passed-over. Having asked him about it too I KNOW that at the moment he's 100% happy with his current existence.
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So to answer your question about is someone trying to get in contact with you? probably, they'd ignore you if you weren't interesting, or else able to help them in some small way.